They took the G20 to bring a retiree into a "story of the uncle" – 29/11/2018

"Stay here, we exchange $ 60,000 in pesos and we bring you all the money", the woman waited more than an hour at the bar. But the fake accountant and his advisors never came back with their savings. He had been a victim of the "uncle's tale".

This type of telephone fraud is occurring more and more frequently in Rosario. The mechanisms, in general, are always the same: a voice on the other side of the phone that pbades for knowledge and a false ploy for the victim to voluntarily deliver his savings. The scam, this time included a business topic: the G20.

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On this occasion, a man who He pretended to be the family's accountant, convinced a 72-year-old retired woman that the dollars she had saved at the bank would be devalued after the world summit of presidents that took place over the weekend in the country.

Counterfeit counter he offered the woman to take her to a branch centered to change all your money into pesos. The retired woman agreed. He went to the branch and gave 60 thousand dollars to the man.

The Investigation and Prosecution Service of the Rosario Public Prosecutor's Office is currently trying to identify the fraudsters. The man, according to the retiree, was moving all the time with two accomplices.

From the prosecution prosecutor's office they confirmed it Clarin that all security cameras in the area of ​​the bank are examined to find criminals.

The case was made public by the old woman's niece. In a dialogue with the portal Rosario3.con told that everything had happened Wednesday, around noon, when they called his aunt on the landline of his house.

According to him, the man is identified as the accountant of another nephew. He told him that he was calling on his behalf for the savings in dollars that he had at the bank. He suggested changing them to pesos because after the G20, they would lose their value..

"You stay calm that I will pick her up and take her to the bank", the supposed accountant has promised. After half an hour, the man wearing a coat and a tie rings at the door. The woman got into a car in which two other people were traveling, a woman and a young man. The four moved from Fisherton, west, to the city's macrocenter.

Arriving at the destination, the retired woman came down and entered the bank alone. He withdrew all his savings and gave them to the crookswho was waiting for him in a bar half a block away. "Stay here, we change the dollars into pesos and we bring you all the money", the man who claimed to be an accountant told him.

He waited more than an hourbut never returned. When he had the idea of ​​calling his nephew, he learned that everything was a hoax but that it was too late